Meet Us at the Bookmill on April 20

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge will join Kristin Bock and Michelle Valois for "Three Readers: An Evening of Poetry and Prose" at the famed Montague Bookmill in Western Massachusetts, from 6 to 8 p.m.​ Saturday, April 20, 2013.

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Kristen Bock is the author of "Cloisters," a book of poetry that won the Tupelo Press First Book Award in 2009. Read an interview. 

Essays, poems, and stories by Michelle Valois have appeared in numerous journals, including The Massachusetts Review, Tri-Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Fourth Genre. 

And you know Jane. ​Her full-length collection, "With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women," is available on Amazon, and you can find her other books through our poetry store. 

The Montague Bookmill is a used bookstore housed in a picturesque 1842 gristmill, set on the banks of the Sawmill River, a few miles north of Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts.​ Its motto is, "Books you don't need in a place you can't find." It regularly appears on lists and photo tours of unusual and interesting bookshops.

March 3 Reading in Somerville, N.J.

Jane Rosenberg LaForge will head to the suburbs for a reading from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Dragonfly Music & Coffee Cafe, 14 East Main St., Somerville, N.J. She'll be appearing with Jim Meirose, author of the new novel "Monkey." ​Let us know if you're coming, on the Facebook page. 

And if you're interested in owning four volumes of Jane's poetry and helping a good cause, you can bid on them at the NYC Lab Auction for the next 15 days. ​

Now Available: 'An Unsuitable Princess'

Update: It's here: Details!

We are delighted to announce that Jane Rosenberg LaForge's book, "An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir" will be published by Jaded Ibis Press, an imprint of Jaded Ibis Productions, within the coming year (either in the fall of 2013 or winter of 2014). Please check out Jaded Ibis, its authors, musicians and artists, as well as interviews with its authors and editors. You may also follow @JadedIbisPress on Twitter.

"An Unsuitable Princess" is an experimental combination of fantasy, memoir and poetry, which had its origins in a personal essay published in 2010 by Ne'er-Do-Well Literary Magazine. 

Watch this site for more updates soon. And while you wait for her next book, you can always order a copy of Jane's "The Navigation of Loss" or "With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women." Thank you for your support of small-press literature.

Poetry Reading in Malibu

Hey Southern California folks: Here a chance to hear Jane Rosenberg LaForge read on the West Coast. She will be appearing from 3 to 5 p.m. this coming Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, at the newest branch of Bank of Books, 29169 Heathercliff Road in Malibu. (Phone: 310-457-5699). Here are directions to the store on Yelp and Google Maps in the Point Dume Plaza.

Jane will read from her full-length collection, "With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women," which will be available for sale. Scroll through this site for reviews and more information about her other publications.

More Critical Praise for 'Apologies to Mick Jagger'

Some more reviews have come in for Jane Rosenberg LaForge's full-length poetry collection, "With Apologies to Mick Jagger, Other Gods, and All Women." [Amazon, $14]. Here are a couple of excerpts.

From Poet Hound:

"Her poems are beautiful, cynical at times, and contemplative. If you enjoy dark, rich words, soil, and/or chocolate, this is the collection for you."

From Heavy Feather Review:

"This is The Poetic Voice surviving in spite of itself. The Voice becoming a voice, 'deepened, but sheared of its depth' ('What Remains'). If nothing else, this is the voice of Walter Benjamin’s 'angel of history' played out in witness of wreckage that is both public and private. There is no heavy-handed progress here to wisdom. What the spectator accumulates leads only to the voice of the spectator. My impatience with The Poetic Voice could have kept me from this book. I’m glad it didn’t."

See earlier reviews here.